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Translation Quality Assessment - An Argumentation-Centred Approach (Paperback, New)
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Translation Quality Assessment - An Argumentation-Centred Approach (Paperback, New)
Series: Perspectives on Translation
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Loot Price R538
Discovery Miles 5 380
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Outlining an original, discourse-based model for translation
quality assessment that goes beyond conventional microtextual error
analysis, this ground-breaking new work by Malcolm Williams
explores the potential of transferring reasoning and argument as
the prime criterion of translation quality. Assessment through
error analysis is inevitably based on an error count -- an
unsatisfactory means of establishing, and justifying, differences
in quality that forces the evaluator to focus on subsentence
elements rather than on the translator's success in conveying the
key message of the source text. Williams counters that a judgement
of translation quality should be based primarily on the degree to
which the translator has adequately rendered the reasoning, or
argument structure. An assessment of six aspects of argument
structure is proposed: argument macrostructure, propositional
functions, conjunctives, types of arguments, figures of speech, and
narrative strategy. Williams illustrates the approach using three
different types of instrumental text: letters, statistical reports,
and argumentative articles for publication. He goes on to propose a
new set of standards, flexible and modular, that will help a
translation meet the minimum professional standard.
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